diff --git a/hack/build.sh b/hack/build.sh
index 604c620e463..587932971e2 100755
--- a/hack/build.sh
+++ b/hack/build.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@
 
 set -ex
 
+# shellcheck disable=SC2068
+version() { IFS="."; printf "%03d%03d%03d\\n" $@; unset IFS;}
+
+minimum_go_version=1.10
+current_go_version=$(go version | cut -d " " -f 3)
+
+if [ "$(version "${current_go_version#go}")" -lt "$(version "$minimum_go_version")" ]; then
+     echo "Go version should be greater or equal to $minimum_go_version"
+     exit 1
+fi
+
 LAUNCH_PATH="${PWD}"
 cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."